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005			20240228105159.0
008			230915s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781250286772 _q(hardcover)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1375541566
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100	1		_aSisson, Gretchen E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRelinquished : _bthe politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood / _cGretchen Sisson.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2402
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2024.
300			_a307 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe domestic suppliers of infants -- Cassie -- Jordan -- Choosing life -- Camille -- Stephanie -- The family my heartbreak made possible -- Sarah -- Erica -- Ten years later -- Paige -- Mothers, martyrs, myths -- Christina -- Kate -- To parent the children we have.
520			_a"A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections and the upcoming decision in Brackeen v. Haaland likely to revoke the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished is an analysis of hundreds of in-depth interviews with American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard as a response to this moment"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAdoption _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMotherhood _zUnited States. _977750
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft _9222299
655		7	_aPersonal narratives. _2lcgft _9268853
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